Schloss Sanssouci

Is such a remarkable palace, located in Potsdam about an hour out of Berlin  with the surrounding gardens but then also if you take the chance to head inside for a look around, there is such an amazing and very interesting story behind this wonderful palace.

 This was built between 1745 and 1747 and was designed by Friedrich the Great, it was used at his summer residence and also his favourite place to get away for a while with his many dogs, which just like him are also buried at on the grounds, where people all over Germany who come to visit will place a potato on his grave as a thank you, as when Friedrich the Great was king he brought potatoes to the country, and planted them in his own personal garden, and had a few guards standing guard over it at night,, he had told them to look the other way, when people would come in and take some potatoes for their own use.


It was completed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff based on the king's designs.

it is worth coming here for a visit, i went as a Potsdam tour, where i saw other areas as well which i shall talk about later in another blog. I would even recommend going on a tour, and you found more of the story behind this place, the one i went on was with Sandmans new berlin tours.